Question

I have the following JSON string, which was an Objective C array then encoded to JSON:

 $jsonString=[\"[e-mail]\",\"[e-mail]\",\"[e-mail]\"]

I want to convert this to a regular PHP array. I’ve tried many things but none of them seem to work:

$arrayOfEmails=json_decode($jsonString); //doesn't work
$arrayOfEmails=(array)json_decode($jsonString); //doesn't work

Any ideas?

Edit:

I’m still not getting it to work.

$decodeEmails=$_POST["arrayOfEmails"];
sendResponse(200, $decodeEmails);
//the above returns exactly whats after this colon:[\"[e-mail]\",\"[e-mail]\",\"[e-mail]\]

I need to do this: $arrayOfEmails=json_decode($decodeEmails);
But I think I need quotes around $decodedEmails for this to work. How can I add quotes around $decodeEmails string?

Answer 1

You should quote your string, it works fine, see here.

$jsonString = '["[e-mail]","[e-mail]","[e-mail]"]';
$arrayOfEmails=json_decode($jsonString);

Or

$jsonString = "[\"[e-mail]\",\"[e-mail]\",\"[e-mail]\"]";
$arrayOfEmails=json_decode($jsonString);